2021 Clásica de Almería (1.Pro), Spain
36th edition: Sunday, February 14, 2021
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Puebla de Vicar - Roquetas de Mar, 183.3 km
Giacomo Nizzolo is the victor. Qhubeka-Assos photo
Weather at the finish city of Roquetas de Mar at 2:00 PM, local time: 18C (65F), sunny, with the wind from the east at 31 km/hr (19 mph). There is only the tiniest chance of rain.
The race: Here's the report from winner Giacomo Nizzolo's Team Qhubeka-Assos:
Giacomo Nizzolo won the Clasica de Almeria in a fantastic sprint finish finale, the first win of the season for the Italian & European Champion and Team Qhubeka ASSOS.
The 183km Clasica de Almeria took place today under a beautiful blue Spanish sky. A strong peloton of 154 riders set off from Pueblo de Vicar on an out, around and back route, finishing in Rocquetas de Mar.
Team Qhubeka ASSOS sent a strong line up to the Spanish UCI 1.Pro race, with Giacomo Nizzolo leading the 7-rider roster that also included Max Walscheid, Victor Campenaerts, Matteo Pelucchi, Carlos Barbero, Emil Vinjebo and Sean Bennett.
With most of the climbing taking place in the opening 100km, followed by a flatter final 80km, the race was expected to end in a bunch sprint. A few early breakaway attempts came to nothing, and it was packed peloton racing into the final 50km all together.
It was a nervy run in to the line and the fight for position resulted in numerous crashes, splitting and whittling down the peloton regularly. After protection from his teammates, Nizzolo made it to the final kilometer well placed but still with a fair bit to do in the technical finish.
The European Champion went around the outside in the final right hand bend and powered away from his challengers with a superior turn of speed. Florian Senechel (Deceuninck-Quickstep) would cross the line 2nd and Martin Laas (Bora-Hansgrohe) rounded out the podium.
Nizzolo’s win is his first of the 2021 cycling season and also the first for Team Qhubeka ASSOS!
Complete Results:
183.3 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.507 km/hr
1 | Giacomo Nizzolo | Qhubeka-Assos | 4hr 18min 44sec |
2 | Florian Sénéchal | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
3 | Martin Laas | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
4 | Jon Aberasturi | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
5 | Timothy Dupont | Bingoal-WB | s.t. |
6 | Danny van Poppel | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Materiaux | s.t. |
7 | Gabriel Cullaigh | Movistar | s.t. |
8 | Edward Theuns | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
9 | Marc Sarreau | Ag2r-Citroën | s.t. |
10 | Damiano Cima | Gazprom-RusVelo | s.t. |
11 | Marco Canola | Gazprom-RusVelo | s.t. |
12 | Amund Grøndahl Jansen | Team BikeExchange | s.t. |
13 | Lorrenzo Manzin | Total Direct Energie | s.t. |
14 | Jordi Warlop | Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise | s.t. |
15 | Bert Van Lerberghe | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
16 | Damien Touzé | Ag2r-Citroën | s.t. |
17 | Fernando Gaviria | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
18 | Filippo Fiorelli | Bardiani CSF Faizanè | s.t. |
19 | Jesus Ezquerra | Burgos-BH | s.t. |
20 | Colin Joyce | Rally Cycling | s.t. |
21 | Umberto Marengo | Bardiani CSF Faizanè | s.t. |
22 | Mikel Aristi | Euskaltel-Euskadi | s.t. |
23 | Stanislaw Aniolkowski | Bingoal-WB | s.t. |
24 | Andrea Vendrame | Ag2r-Citroën | s.t. |
25 | Manuel Belletti | EOLO-Kometa | s.t. |
26 | Attilio Viviani | Cofidis | s.t. |
27 | Pier-Andre Cote | Rally Cycling | s.t. |
28 | Cédric Beullens | Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise | s.t. |
29 | Jetse Bol | Burgos-BH | s.t. |
30 | Nickolas Zukowsky | Rally Cycling | s.t. |
31 | Daniel Savini | Bardiani CSF Faizanè | s.t. |
32 | Yevgeniy Gidich | Astana-Premier Tech | s.t. |
33 | Victor Campenaerts | Qhubeka-Assos | s.t. |
34 | Enrico Battaglin | Bardiani CSF Faizanè | s.t. |
35 | Maximiliano Richeze | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
36 | Alex Jaime Fernández | Kern Pharma | s.t. |
37 | Savva Novikov | Kern Pharma | s.t. |
38 | Juan Lobato | Euskaltel-Euskadi | s.t. |
39 | Marcus Burghardt | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
40 | Julen Irizar | Euskaltel-Euskadi | s.t. |
41 | Luis Sánchez | Astana-Premier Tech | s.t. |
42 | Dries van Gestel | Total Direct Energie | s.t. |
43 | Artyom Zakharov | Astana-Premier Tech | s.t. |
44 | Gonzalo Serrano | Movistar | @ 9sec |
45 | Sebastian Molano | UAE Team Emirates | @ 11sec |
46 | Andrea Pasqualon | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Materiaux | s.t. |
47 | Antonio Soto | Euskaltel-Euskadi | s.t. |
48 | Samuele Zoccarato | Bardiani CSF Faizanè | s.t. |
49 | Petr Rikunov | Gazprom-RusVelo | s.t. |
50 | Sergey Chernetskiy | Gazprom-RusVelo | s.t. |
51 | Lawrence Naesen | Ag2r-Citroën | s.t. |
52 | Lorenzo Fortunato | EOLO-Kometa | s.t. |
53 | Yevgeniy Fedorov | Astana-Premier Tech | s.t. |
54 | Javier Romo | Astana-Premier Tech | s.t. |
55 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar | s.t. |
56 | Davide Martinelli | Astana-Premier Tech | s.t. |
57 | Luis Mate | Euskaltel-Euskadi | s.t. |
58 | Diego Rubio | Burgos-BH | s.t. |
59 | Juri Hollmann | Movistar | s.t. |
60 | Ivan Garcia | Movistar | s.t. |
61 | Pavel Kochetkov | Gazprom-RusVelo | s.t. |
62 | Anthony Jullien | Ag2r-Citroën | s.t. |
63 | Diego Lopez | Kern Pharma | s.t. |
64 | Johan Jacobs | Movistar | s.t. |
65 | Joey Rosskopf | Rally Cycling | s.t. |
66 | Jacopo Mosca | Trek-Segafredo | 19 |
67 | Sean Bennett | Qhubeka-Assos | s.t. |
68 | Cristian Rodriguez | Total Direct Energie | 22 |
69 | Filippo Zana | Bardiani CSF Faizanè | s.t. |
70 | Patrick Gamper | Bora-hansgrohe | s.t. |
71 | Xabier Azparren | Euskaltel-Euskadi | s.t. |
72 | Mattia Frapporti | EOLO-Kometa | s.t. |
73 | Rui Oliveira | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
74 | Nick Schultz | Team BikeExchange | s.t. |
75 | Emil Vinjebo | Qhubeka-Assos | 29 |
76 | Carlos Barbero | Qhubeka-Assos | s.t. |
77 | Michael Hepburn | Team BikeExchange | 35 |
78 | Callum Scotson | Team BikeExchange | s.t. |
79 | Jannik Steimle | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 38 |
80 | Nicola Conci | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
81 | Nathan Haas | Cofidis | 42 |
82 | Kenneth Vanbilsen | Cofidis | s.t. |
83 | Jon Irisarri | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
84 | Christopher Lawless | Total Direct Energie | s.t. |
85 | Cesare Benedetti | Bora-hansgrohe | 45 |
86 | Tim Declercq | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 47 |
87 | Stan Dewulf | Ag2r-Citroën | s.t. |
88 | Dion Smith | Team BikeExchange | 58 |
89 | Pieter Vanspeybrouck | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Materiaux | s.t. |
90 | Aaron Van Poucke | Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise | s.t. |
91 | Niki Terpstra | Total Direct Energie | 1:10 |
92 | Max Walscheid | Qhubeka-Assos | 1:12 |
93 | Jack Bauer | Team BikeExchange | s.t. |
94 | Mark Cavendish | Deceuninck-Quick Step | 1:36 |
95 | Mathias Norsgaard | Movistar | 1:36 |
96 | Stijn Steels | Deceuninck-Quick Step | s.t. |
97 | Tom Paquot | Bingoal-WB | s.t. |
98 | Loic Vliegen | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Materiaux | s.t. |
99 | Geoffrey Soupe | Total Direct Energie | s.t. |
100 | Andre Carvalho | Cofidis | s.t. |
101 | Lukas Pöstlberger | Bora-hansgrohe | 1:42 |
102 | Matteo Pelucchi | Qhubeka-Assos | 1:47 |
103 | Alex Colman | Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise | 2:01 |
104 | Taco van der Hoorn | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Materiaux | s.t. |
105 | Ward Vanhoof | Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise | s.t. |
106 | Gijs Van Hoecke | Ag2r-Citroën | s.t. |
107 | Alexander Kamp | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
108 | Oliviero Troia | UAE Team Emirates | 2:04 |
109 | John Archibald | EOLO-Kometa | 2:12 |
110 | Nikita Stalnov | Astana-Premier Tech | 3:41 |
111 | Alvaro Cuadros | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 3:54 |
112 | Hector Saez | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
113 | Victor Lafay | Cofidis | s.t. |
114 | Fabio Sabatini | Cofidis | s.t. |
115 | Kenny De Ketele | Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise | s.t. |
116 | Robbe Ghys | Sport Vlaanderen-Baloise | s.t. |
117 | Tom Wirtgen | Bingoal-WB | s.t. |
118 | Marco Marcato | UAE Team Emirates | 4:35 |
119 | Angel Madrazo | Burgos-BH | s.t. |
120 | David González | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
121 | Oier Lazkano | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
122 | Carlos Garcia | Kern Pharma | s.t. |
123 | Enrique Sanz | Kern Pharma | s.t. |
124 | José Parra | Kern Pharma | s.t. |
125 | Laurenz Rex | Bingoal-WB | 5:32 |
126 | Ludovic Robeet | Bingoal-WB | s.t. |
127 | Emerson Oronte | Rally Cycling | s.t. |
128 | Nathan Brown | Rally Cycling | s.t. |
129 | Davide Bais | EOLO-Kometa | s.t. |
130 | Samuele Rivi | EOLO-Kometa | s.t. |
131 | Antonio Nibali | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
132 | Alex Molenaar | Burgos-BH | s.t. |
133 | Dmitriy Strakhov | Gazprom-RusVelo | s.t. |
134 | Ivo Oliveira | UAE Team Emirates | 7:06 |
135 | Boris Vallée | Bingoal-WB | 8:57 |
136 | Jelle Wallays | Cofidis | 11:36 |
137 | Maciej Bodnar | Bora-hansgrohe | 12:36 |
138 | Mikel Alonso | Euskaltel-Euskadi | 13:26 |
139 | Luca Pacioni | EOLO-Kometa | 13:56 |
140 | Ibon Ruiz | Kern Pharma | s.t. |
141 | Jordi Meeus | Bora-hansgrohe | 14:16 |
142 | Jonas Koch | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Materiaux | 14:31 |
143 | Boy van Poppel | Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Materiaux | s.t. |
Course map.
Course profile
Start list with back numbers, Febraury 13, 2021:
BORA – HANSGROHE (GER) | ||
1 | BENEDETTI Cesare | ITA |
2 | BODNAR Maciej | POL |
3 | BURGHARDT Marcus | GER |
4 | GAMPER Patrick | AUT |
5 | LAAS Martin | EST |
6 | MEEUS Jordi | BEL |
7 | PÖSTLBERGER Lukas | AUT |
D.S. HEYNDERICK Jean – Pierre | ||
UAE TEAM EMIRATES (UAE) | ||
11 | GAVIRIA Fernando | COL |
12 | MARCATO Marco | ITA |
13 | MOLANO Juan Sebastian | COL |
14 | OLIVEIRA Ivo | POR |
15 | OLIVEIRA Rui | POR |
16 | RICHEZE maximiliano | ARG |
17 | TROIA Oliviero | ITA |
D.s. PEDRAZZINI Simone | ||
COFIDIS (FRA) | ||
21 | HAAS Nathan | AUS |
22 | WALLAYS Jelle | BEL |
23 | CARVALHO André | POR |
24 | LAFAY Victor | FRA |
25 | SABATINI Fabio | ITA |
26 | VANBILSEN Kenneth | BEL |
27 | VIVIANI Attilio | ITA |
D.S. FERNANDEZ Bingen | ||
INTERMARCHÉ – WANTY – GOBERT MATÉRIAUX (BEL) | ||
31 | KOCH Jonas | GER |
32 | PASQUALON Andrea | ITA |
33 | VAN DER HOORN Taco | NED |
34 | VAN POPPEL Boy | NED |
35 | VAN POPPEL Danny | NED |
36 | VANSPEYBROUCK Pieter | BEL |
37 | VLIEGEN Loic | BEL |
D.S. ROSSIGNON Jean M. | ||
TEAM BIKEEXCHANGE (AUS) | ||
41 | BAUER Jack | NZL |
42 | HEPBURN Michael | AUS |
43 | JANSEN, Amund G. | NOR |
44 | SCHULTZ, Nicholas | AUS |
45 | SCOTSON Callum | AUS |
46 | SMITH Dion | NZL |
47 | STANNARD Robert | AUS |
D.S. WHITE Matthew | ||
SPORT VLAANDEREN – BALOISE (BEL) | ||
51 | BEULLENS Cedric | BEL |
52 | COLMAN Alex | BEL |
53 | DE KETELE Kenny | BEL |
54 | GHYS Robbe | BEL |
55 | VANHOOF Ward | BEL |
56 | VAN POUCKE Aaron | BEL |
57 | WARLOP Jordi | BEL |
D.S. DE CLERCQ Hans | ||
AG2R CITROEN TEAM (FRA) | ||
61 | DEWULF Stan | BEL |
62 | VENDRAME Andrea | ITA |
63 | JULLIEN Anthony | FRA |
64 | NAESEN Lawrence | BEL |
65 | SARREAU Marc | FRA |
66 | VAN HOECE Gijs | BEL |
67 | TOUZE Damien | FRA |
D.S. JANNEL Didier | ||
EUSKALTEL – EUSKADI (ESP) | ||
71 | ALONSO Mikel | ESP |
72 | ARISTI Mikel | ESP |
73 | AZPARREN Xabier M. | ESP |
74 | IRIZAR Julen | ESP |
75 | LOBATO Juan José | ESP |
76 | MATE Luis Angel | ESP |
77 | SOTO Antonio J. | BLR |
D.S. AZANZA Jorge | ||
MOVISTAR (ESP) | ||
81 | CULLAIGH Gabriel | GBR |
82 | GARCIA CORTINA Ivan | ESP |
83 | HOLLMANN Juri | GER |
84 | JACOBS Johan | SUI |
85 | JORGENSEN Mathias Norsgaard | DEN |
86 | SERRANO Gonzalo | ESP |
87 | VALVERDE Alejandro | ESP |
D.S. GARCIA ACOSTA José Vicente | ||
EQUIPO KERN PHARMA (ESP) | ||
91 | GARCIA Carlos | ESP |
92 | JAIME FERNANDEZ Alex | ESP |
93 | LOPEZ FUENTES Diego | ESP |
94 | NOVIKOV Savva | RUS |
95 | PARRA Jose Felix | ESP |
96 | RUIZ Ibon | ESP |
97 | SANZ Enrique | ESP |
D.S. URTASUN Pablo | ||
ASTANA – PREMIER TECH (KAZ) | ||
101 | SANCHEZ Luis León | ESP |
102 | GIDICH Yevgeniy | KAZ |
103 | FEDOROV Yevgeniy | KAZ |
104 | MARTINELLI Davide | ITA |
105 | ROMO Javier | ESP |
106 | STALNOV Nikita | KAZ |
107 | ZAKHAROV Artyom | KAZ |
D.S. MURAVYEV Dimitry | ||
BURGOS BH (ESP) | ||
111 | BOL Jetse | NED |
112 | EZQUERRA Jesus | ESP |
113 | LOPEZ – COZAR Juan Antonio | ESP |
114 | MADRAZO Angel | ESP |
115 | MOLENAAR Alex | NED |
116 | PEÑALVER Manuel | ESP |
117 | RUBIO Diego | ESP |
D.S. PEREZ Ruben | ||
DECEUNINCK – QUICK-STEP (BEL) | ||
121 | CAVENDISH Mark | GBR |
122 | DECLERCQ Tim | BEL |
123 | HODEG Alvaro Jose | COL |
124 | SENECHAL Florian | FRA |
125 | STEELS Stijn | BEL |
126 | STEIMLE Jannik | GER |
127 | VAN LERBERGHE | BEL |
D.S. PEETERS Wilfried | ||
BINGOAL WB (BEL) | ||
131 | ANIOLKOWSKI Stanislaw | POL |
132 | DUPONT Timothy | BEL |
133 | PAQUOT Tom | BEL |
134 | REX Laurenz | BEL |
135 | ROBEET Ludovic | BEL |
136 | VALLEE Boris | BEL |
137 | WIRTGEN Tom | LUX |
D.S. VANDENBROUCKE Jean – Denis | ||
TEAM QHUBEKA ASSOS (RSA) | ||
141 | BARBERO Carlos | ESP |
142 | BENNETT Sean | USA |
143 | CAMPENAERTS Victor | BEL |
144 | NIZZOLO Giacomo | ITA |
145 | PELUCCHI Matteo | ITA |
146 | VINJEBO Emil Nygaard | DEN |
147 | WALSCHEID Maximilian | GER |
D.S. SANS VEGA Alex | ||
EOLO-KOMETA CYCLING TEAM (ITA) | ||
151 | ARCHIBALD Jhon | GBR |
152 | BAIS Davide | ITA |
153 | BELLETTI Manuel | ITA |
154 | FORTUNATO Lorenzo | ITA |
155 | FRAPPORTI Mattia | ITA |
156 | PACIONI Luca | ITA |
157 | RIVI Samuele | ITA |
D.S. HERNANDEZ Jesus | ||
TREK – SEGAFREDO (USA) | ||
161 | CONCI Nicola | ITA |
162 | EGHOLM Jakob | DEN |
163 | GHEBREIGZABHIER Amanuel | ERI |
164 | KAMP Alexander | DEN |
165 | MOSCA Jacopo | ITA |
166 | NIBALI Antonio | ITA |
167 | THEUNS Edward | BEL |
D.S. DE JONG Steven | ||
CAJA RURAL – SEGUROS RGA (ESP) | ||
171 | ABERASTURI Jon | ESP |
172 | CUADROS Alvaro | ESP |
173 | GONZALEZ David | ESP |
174 | IRISARRI Jon | ESP |
175 | LAZKANO Oier | ESP |
176 | NICOLAU Joel | ESP |
177 | SAEZ Hector | ESP |
D.S. MARTINEZ Ruben | ||
GAZPROM – RUSVELO (RUS) | ||
181 | BOEV Igor | RUS |
182 | CANOLA Marco | ITA |
183 | CHERNETSKII Sergei | RUS |
184 | CIMA Imerio | ITA |
185 | KOCHETKOV Pavel | RUS |
186 | RIKUNOV Petr | RUS |
187 | STRAKHOV Dmitrii | RUS |
D.S. MARKOV Aleksei | ||
TOTAL DIRECT ENERGIE (FRA) | ||
191 | LAWLESS Christopher | GBR |
192 | MANZIN Lorrenzo | FRA |
193 | PETIT Adrien | FRA |
194 | RODRIGUEZ Cristian | ESP |
195 | SOUPE Geoffrey | FRA |
196 | TERPSTRA Niki | NED |
197 | VAN GESTEL Dries | BEL |
D.S. LEBRETON Lylian | ||
BARDIANI CSF FAIZANE’ (ITA) | ||
201 | BATTAGLIN Enrico | ITA |
202 | FIORELLI Filippo | ITA |
203 | MARENGO Umberto | ITA |
204 | SAVINI Daniel | ITA |
205 | VISCONTI Giovanni | ITA |
206 | ZANA Filippo | ITA |
207 | ZOCCARATO Samuele | ITA |
D.S. ROSSATO Mirco | ||
RALLY CYCLING (USA) | ||
211 | BROWN Nathan | NED |
212 | COTE Pier – Andre | CAN |
213 | DE KLEIJN Arvid | USA |
214 | JOYCE Colin | CAN |
215 | ORONTE Emerson | USA |
216 | ROSSKOPF Joseph | USA |
217 | ZUKOWSKY Nickolas | USA |
D.S. BAJADALI Andrew |